{"id":155077,"date":"2023-01-10T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/deepmind-ai-invents-faster-algorithms-to-solve-tough-maths-puzzles"},"modified":"2023-01-10T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:23:23","slug":"deepmind-ai-invents-faster-algorithms-to-solve-tough-maths-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/deepmind-ai-invents-faster-algorithms-to-solve-tough-maths-puzzles","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind AI invents faster algorithms to solve tough maths puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepmind-ai-invents-faster-algorithms-to-solve-tough-maths-puzzles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at DeepMind in London have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can find shortcuts in a fundamental type of mathematical calculation, by turning the problem into a game and then leveraging the machine-learning techniques that another of the company\u2019s AIs used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature.2016.19544\">beat human players in games such as Go<\/a> and chess.<\/p>\n<p>The AI discovered algorithms that break decades-old records for computational efficiency, and the team\u2019s findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05172-4\">published on 5 October in <i>Nature<\/i><\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-03166-w#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, could open up new paths to faster computing in some fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very impressive,\u201d says Martina Seidl, a computer scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. \u201cThis work demonstrates the potential of using machine learning for solving hard mathematical problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at DeepMind in London have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can find shortcuts in a fundamental type of mathematical calculation, by turning the problem into a game and then leveraging the machine-learning techniques that another of the company\u2019s AIs used to beat human players in games such as Go and chess. The AI discovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}